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heartcream -> RE: ☢Warning Nebraska's Calhoun Nuclear Plant is Flooding - Nuclear Crisis☢ (6/22/2011 10:46:19 AM)
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ORIGINAL: stef
I see that Chicken Little has been conspicuously absent since yesterday, but I came across this gem last night:
“If we would be required by our procedures to shutdown the reactor if water reached the 902 feet above sea level (45.5 on the Brownville river gauge) we would do a shutdown. More than likely we would do a shutdown over a period of 4 to 10 hours, but could shut the reactor down within three seconds. We prefer to slowly go down to avoid errors. No melt down would occur because the safety systems would be operating with power from off-site sources that would run the pumps and other equipment necessary to keep the reactor and spent fuel storage facility with cooling water. The shutdown would be similar to the same types of actions taken when we go into a refueling outage and we have gone through more than 26 refueling outages. In the event we would lose off-site power, we have three diesel generators available to operate the safety systems. There is already diesel fuel available for 20 days of continuous operation (diesel; generators are tested monthly and we added the third backup system during the last refueling outage) plus we have brought in several tankers filled with diesel fuel and have alerted our fuel supplier to need of additional fuel if needed. We also have available backup sources of power with the use of batteries that can operate 4-8 hours with a portable diesel generator available to recharge those batteries.”
We now return you to your regular ignorance-fueled fear mongering.
Who is Chicken Little?
The stuff you presented in hard to read multi-colors is what someone said and then other people say something else. It is the way of the world these days isnt it? In New Orleans "they" all said the levee's were fine blah blah blah didnt they? How many examples of this sort of thing have we seen in our ol world to smell a wagging dog?
It is good to get the whole story out if possible. Not sure who/what I bolded (in black) part is in reference to but in my books the information you put forward is one presentation and it may be correct/proof of an okay situation, it may not. Anything other than that is not necessarily ignorance fueled fear mongering ya big bully.
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